A great stream from a petty-fountain; or John Bull swamped in the flood of new-taxes: cormorants fishing in the stream

Description: A rustic fountain gushes from the mouth of Lord Henry Petty, whose head and shoulders emerge from a stone wall or rock surrounded by trees. The water expands and falls by billowing stages into a sea, with the horizon labeled 'Unfathomable Sea of Taxation'. In this sea cormorants, with human heads and huge beaks and pelican-like pouches, are greedily fishing, while a rowing boat founders, throwing into the water John Bull, who drops an oar inscribed 'William Pitt'; only his head (submerged up to the mouth) and arms emerge. The water from Petty's mouth, the different levels of water in the fountain, and the sea are labeled with different taxes instituted by the government. The birds represent Grenville, Sidmouth, Sheridan, Fox, Moira, Windham, Grey, Ellenborough, Horne Tooke, Burdett, Buckingham, Derby, Lauderdale, and Adair. Source: George.